Legal Blog

Adam Lanza, the shooter in the 2012 Newtown, Ct., elementary school massacre, “did not snap” and had planned the attack as early as March 2011, say newly released FBI documents reported by the Wall Street Journal. The bureau made public hundreds of pages of documents...

Yesterday the Supreme Court dismissed the second of the two challenges to President Donald Trump’s March 6 entry ban, Trump v. Hawaii, vacating the judgment and remanding the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit with instructions to dismiss it as...

The yearning of business development professionals eager to sell offerings beyond the highly commoditized ESI (Electronically Stored Information) play coupled with the rapid consolidation of e-discovery vendors has caused the beginning of an exodus of business development talent from the industry. While ESI practitioners remain...

Asbestos Removal Cost
Asbestos removal cost, how much do I really need to get this removed from my house? Asbestos is hazardous when airborne; if inhaled, tiny particles can cause lung or stomach cancer. Details about where asbestos might be found are provided by the Environmental...

The petition of the day is:
Kansas v. National Indian Gaming Commission
17-463
Issue: Whether the National Indian Gaming Commission’s legal opinions that determine whether Indian lands are eligible for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act are reviewable final agency actions.
The post Petition of the day appeared...

From November 2 through November 5, the American Bar Association will host the Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit in Long Beach, California. Speakers include, but are not limited to, Erwin Chemerinsky, Diane Wood, Bryan Garner, Pam Karlan and Patrick Higginbotham. More information, including a full...

The Supreme Court formally removed the second of two challenges to President Donald Trump’s March 6 executive order from its docket today. The March 6 order, sometimes known as the “travel ban,” had blocked travel to the United States by nationals of six Muslim-majority countries...

Most criticism of prison labor, that it’s “a form of slavery, a capitalist horror show … and even counterproductive in the effort to reform the justice system,” is unwarranted, former inmate Chandra Bozelko writes in the Los Angeles Times. Serving six years for identity theft...

A study of capital punishment in Pennsylvania found that death sentences are more common when the victim is white and less frequent when the victim is black, the Associated Press reports. The report concluded that a white victim increases the odds of a death sentence...

John Elwood reviews yesterday’s relists.
For the first time during October Term 2017, we have had a week off between Supreme Court conferences. That’s great – everyone has had a little more time to chi–ll–ax and focus on what really matters.
But now it’s Tuesday and the...